Dan Rather Quotes
"Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls."
- Dan Rather
(Related: Government, Opinion, Public, Public opinion)
"Never eat spinach just before going on the air."
- Dan Rather
"Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly."
- Dan Rather
(Related: Direction)
"Only votes talk, everything else walks."
- Dan Rather
(Related: Talk)
"Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one."
- Dan Rather
(Related: Business)
"They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun."
- Dan Rather
(Related: May)
"Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic."
- Dan Rather
(Related: Americans, Will)
"Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather."
- Dan Rather
(Related: Country, Games, Opinion, Weather)
"To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer."
- Dan Rather
(Related: Computer)
"What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it."
- Dan Rather
"If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all."
- Dan Rather
(Related: Difficulties, Journey)
"The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth"."
- Dan Rather
(Related: Dream)
"Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?"
- Dan Rather
(Related: Dance, Democrats)
"I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group."
- Dan Rather
"And now the sequence of events in no particular order."
- Dan Rather
(Related: Events, Now, Order)
"A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well."
- Dan Rather
(Related: Life, Wishes)
"An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger."
- Dan Rather
"Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow."
- Dan Rather
(Related: Courage, Being)
"Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy."
- Dan Rather
(Related: Americans, Capitalism, Democracy)
"Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek."
- Dan Rather
"Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country."
- Dan Rather
(Related: Fear, Country, Rules)
"For years Don Imus was just - boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt."
- Dan Rather
(Related: Criticism, Hurt, Years)
"I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces."
- Dan Rather
(Related: Pressure)
"I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog."
- Dan Rather